&#8226 City Council votes to support Calhan’s request to join a regional transportation group (Gazette).
&#8226 Progressive plans to hire more than 100 workers for an area call center (Gazette).
&#8226 The city’s interim police chief becomes the permanent head of the PD (Gazette, KXRM).

Pueblo/Pueblo County

&#8226 Puebloans react to the State of the Union Address (Chieftain).
&#8226 D60 to dip into reserves to meet budget shortfall (Chieftain).
&#8226 Popular dog park reopens (Chieftain).
&#8226 Pueblo County judicial building to break ground on Feb. 1st (Chieftain).

Other Areas in the KRCC Listening Region

&#8226 The Huerfano County Sheriff’s Office is looking for suspects in the killing of 13 horses near Gardner (Chieftain).
&#8226 Recall in Saguache County ends with a new county clerk (Chieftain).
&#8226 Two more schools in Alamosa are in need of repair (Chieftain).

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News

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December 9, 2016 | NPR · President-elect Donald Trump will retain a credit as executive producer of the reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice. The new season, with new “boss” Arnold Schwarzenegger, premieres January 2. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says no one but Trump knows how involved he will be, but the news seems to contradict NBC’s past assertion that it has severed business ties with Trump.

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